Terry Crews Calls Out Kevin Hart For His Reaction To The Outrage Caused By Homophobic Tweets

On Jan 10, 2019 52

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In December last year, Kevin Hart stood down as host of the Oscars after a number of insensitive and homophobic tweets made by the actor surfaced.

Recently, Hart appeared on an episode of The Ellen Show, in which he and DeGeneres discussed the incident, and how he has handled it since.

DeGeneres even suggested he should try to be the host again, revealing that she had called the Academy and urged them to rehire Hart.

Some people, however, do not see it the same way as DeGeneres, and have pointed out that Hart still didn’t formally apologise for his tweets, and instead spoke about the ‘trolls’ who had launched ‘a malicious attack’ on his character.

During the interview, Ellen said:

I called the Academy today as I really want you to host the Oscars. I was so excited when I heard that they had asked you. I thought it was an amazing thing.

So I called them and said Kevin’s on, I have no idea if he wants to come back and host but what are your thoughts and they were like ‘oh my God, we want him to host, we feel like maybe he misunderstood or it was handled wrong, maybe we said the wrong thing but we want him to host’.

The Academy is saying what can we do to make this happen and I am saying to you as one of the smartest people I know, one of the funniest people I know… there are so many haters out there and whatever is going on with the internet, don’t pay attention to them, that’s a small group of people being very, very loud.

Agreeing with Ellen, Hart concurred the problem lies with those who unearthed his old tweets describing it as a ‘malicious attack’ on his character.

He then indicated he would think about returning to hosting duties, saying:

Leaving here, I promise you I’m evaluating this conversation. Let me assess, just sit in the space and really think, and you and I will talk before anything else.

Today (January 10) Brooklyn Nine-Nine star Terry Crews called out Hart, expressing disappointment for the way he handled the situation and the controversy over his historic tweets.